A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great.
GROTE, George.
A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great.
"A monument of industrious Victorian scholarship": George Grote's A History of Greece; finely bound
London: John Murray, 1869.
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Finely bound edition of Grote’s seminal work. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, frontispiece portrait of Grotte, folding maps and plans. In near fine condition.
Grote's monumental History "was received with universal acclamation, was translated into French and German, shaped the European conception of its subject-matter throughout the nineteenth century, and still merits respect as a monument of industrious Victorian scholarship. The History is, in fact, a paean in praise of political liberty, and he glorified the Athenian democracy as fervently as he misrepresented the despotism of the 'barbarian', Alexander the Great. Grote gave penetrating sketches of Greek intellectual life, and his enthusiasm for 'the noble, the good and the beautiful' deeply influenced political and educational thought" (PMM).
